EmoThreat: Emotions & Threat Detection in Urdu

CICLing 2022 track @ FIRE 2022

Task Description

With the growth of spread and importance of social media platforms, the effect of their misuse became more and more impactful. In particular, numerous posts contain abusive language towards certain users and hence worsen users’ experience from communication via such platforms, while other posts contain actual threats that potentially put platform users in danger. The Urdu language has more than 230 million speakers worldwide with vast representation on social networks and digital media.

We encourage participants to participate in EmoThreat: Emotion and Threat detection in Urdu (Nastaliq)

Task A: Multi-label emotion classification in Urdu

Task B: Threatening Language Detection Task in Urdu

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The testset for task A has been released. Go to Dataset to download.

Codalab Link: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/5718#learn_the_details-overview (The evaluation form will be updated soon)